Ports in Asia and Europe are Building for the Future

摘要

Charlie Lim, maritime and fisheries attache at the South Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., leans across his office coffee table to emphasize the importance of Busan (formerly known as Pusan) port to his country. South Korea, he says, is small - about the size of Indiana. Three-quarters of its land is mountainous, unsuited for agriculture. It has no oil, no natural gas and little coal. His nation, he says, has "only two resources, human beings and logistics." South Korea, Lim emphasizes, must trade to live. Busan port is South Korea's window on the, world, among the most active container ports in the world, a considerable share of that traffic trans-shipped from China.